Example sentences of "[noun] would [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And the messengers would come all the time .
2 But , The Builder commented , Scott would disclaim such a description of his work .
3 He was used to heavier controls than this , but an hour 's practice would make all the difference .
4 The old hens would eat all the feed .
5 Health service employers who mean what they say in their statements about equal opportunities would welcome such a monitoring process .
6 That law would permit such an authority to rely upon presumed injury to its reputation because the defendant , who had accomplished a statement reflecting upon the reputation of the local authority , would have to prove the truth if he sought to justify the publication ; and , if he had commented adversely upon the conduct of the council , he would have to prove the substantial truth of the facts upon which the comment was based .
7 The general population has no stomach for such blatant bigotry , and the lesbian and gay communities would fight all the way to protect the limited freedoms we enjoy here .
8 At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’
9 The question is whether the Treaty of Maastricht would make such a transfer of allegiance imperative .
10 Malcolm Colley would consider this a failure .
11 Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off .
12 The Special Branch detective was asked whether he thought it probable that a more junior officer in the social welfare wing would call such a meeting and at it preside over ones of much more senior rank from the military wing .
13 The Khmers Rouges , who boycotted the final stages of the Pattaya talks , blocked moves to invite a small UN team to supervise the ceasefire , fearing that the SOC would use such a team to legitimize its own administration and possibly to avoid greater UN involvement in the organization of elections .
14 But it is unlikely that Althusser would welcome such an option because , as we saw , he is anxious to reject this very distinction .
15 If I were to write of Milton Friedman : ‘ the absence of self-consciousness and the resulting presence of an egocentrically unified perspective seem to be associated with an inability to shift perspective in concept formation problems ’ , I do not suppose that many psychologists would accept such an application of the language of psychology .
16 He asks : ‘ Would anyone say that the matrimonial consent would render this no crime ? ’
17 I 've seen that girl ride straight at an obstacle would make many a man blanch . ’
18 He said a skilled and ethical therapist would resist such an advance , knowing the harm it might cause the patient .
19 The damp conditions would exacerbate such a situation .
20 Some people find it hard to accept that Jesus would utter such a cry of despair .
21 Firms interested in cleaning up their act were offered a special deal : Railside Revival would pay half the cost of materials and community programme workers would do the work for free .
22 It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease .
23 With its own small quay , a landing stage and 180 ft of frontage on to Mylor Creek , near Falmouth , Otter Bridge would fulfil many a dream , even though the house itself is modern .
24 It was hard to credit that a British Cabinet would pursue such a policy but , then , there were plenty of hard men in the Government .
25 The Wolvercote Tongue was insured for half a million dollars , and one of the safest ways of transferring it over to England had got to be on the person of the traveller : few people would entrust such an item to letter-post or parcel-post or courier-service ; and even if they did , the insurance-risk premium would be prohibitive .
26 Most normal people would have half a pound at the most .
27 The next step was to enquire whether Queen Mary would accept such a gift .
28 I , in my turn , would be confined to small-animal work , and you and Ian Woodall would have all the farm work .
29 When they paused near one of these villages to rest the horses the Collector remained in the carriage and watched the men drawing water from the well , drawing it up in a huge leather bag with the help of their bullocks , and he knew that the same two men and two bullocks would do this every day until the end of their lives .
30 No analyst would make such a claim today , and the ‘ nationalization ’ thesis has had to be revised in the light of increased local variations in voting behaviour .
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